Sentence examples for apparent principle from inspiring English sources

"In order to find an apparent principle on which it can reasonably deny equality to gay men and lesbians," O'Toole wrote of the no campaign, "it has to tell huge numbers of other people that their relationships are just not up to scratch".

Change is achieved, as are the victories of a government in a democracy, by way of painful coalition-building, hypocrisy, occasional violations of apparent principles, ugly if short-term violations of civil liberties, tactical duplicity and long-game strategic thinking, and, often, disingenuous dealings around the goals and the scope of an operation.

There's no apparent guiding principle as to what has been included and what has been left out.

Wayne's vocal is roughly sixty bars with no apparent organizing principle, more like an improvised freestyle than an intentionally constructed song, which doesn't weaken it in any way.

It is apparent that principles do not determine their concreta as causes, reasons, or ends.

One sees the same principle — apparent rationality inflected with an underlying obsessiveness — in the prime Shaker objects.

However, under closer scrutiny, it becomes apparent that the principle of causality is often only the first approximation to the true situation, and that a more realistic model would include some of the past states of the system.

Antinomy, in philosophy, contradiction, real or apparent, between two principles or conclusions, both of which seem equally justified; it is nearly synonymous with the term paradox.

Proponents of historically informed performances have won, their movement now in the mainstream and their anti-Romantic, anti-self-indulgent principles apparent everywhere.

Minorities thus exercise control in apparent violation of principles of political equality and one-person-one-vote more sone-person-one-vote moreone-person-one-vote more

After spending some time with the group, it became apparent that their principles aren't quite as radical as I'd first expected – they're not proposing the rebuilding of Hadrian's Wall; they basically want what every other Yes campaigner wants, just without so much involvement from Salmond and his SNP.